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Living Room / Re: USB Keyboard not available during windows boot sequence

« Last post by mouser on February 25, 2008, 08:10 AM »

upgrade the motherboard bios if you can.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: BUG: Can't launch results that end in space

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2008, 08:44 PM »

on my todo list.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.08.01 - Oct 08, 2006

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2008, 08:44 PM »

fluffy i think this is a good idea-- ive been working on some other work and will be so for a couple more months but i have some process tamer work to do when that's finished, and i hope i can get around to adding this kind of thing.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Fora TV -- Cant find a valid FLV stream

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2008, 06:09 PM »

thanks for the report about what worked -- (sorry you had to solve it on your own!)

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Living Room / Re: Bluescreens and then reboots too quickly for me to read what it says

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2008, 03:48 PM »

thanks everyone for the advice -- the next time it happens i will now be able to see it since i changed the reboot switch, and thanks to you guys i now know about the dump files 

ps. i guess the auto reboot could be useful if its a remote pc or something.  a MUCH smarter choice would have been to ALWAYS PAUSE on a blue screen for a few seconds.

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Living Room / Re: Sleep is killing my mouse

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2008, 01:25 PM »

well cloq has a point though, that although you are right about the problem, a fix might come from any of:

• motherboard bios update
• mouse driver update
• windows update
• buying a new mouse

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2008, 12:49 PM »

nice idea jabberwock, i wonder how hard it would be though.

brandon and Armando, nircmd downloadable alias pack is here: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9365.0

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Developer's Corner / Re: Free Software Magazine comes to their senses: software patents are good

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2008, 08:43 AM »

so basically having read it, it seems the article is not really in favor of software patents, it summarizes the cases for them, and then puts forward cases against them.

and my reading is that they are basically come down against software patents, though in a very round about way.

then the article concludes by basically saying nothing and taking no point on the matter.

my summary of the article:
1) read it for the interesting pro and cons
2) ignore the title, ignore the conclusion
3) ignore houseteirs comments about the article and especially the title of his post, which really confused me.

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ProcessTamer / Re: ProcessTamer Tray Icon does not display in Vista

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2008, 07:10 AM »

thanks iycgtptyarvg -- i think i may just add code to my programs to force a delete/add of the icons 60 seconds or so after startup, good idea.

i wonder if when this phenomena happens where the icon is not shown (either at startup or on explorer crash), whether it's possible to DETECT this condition.  that would be ideal -- then you wouldn't actually have to flash the icon if it wasn't needed.

while it's hard to reproduce the startup with windows rare case where icon doesn't show -- it's easy to reproduce the explorer crash situation.  any idea how one would check for this scenario and check whether your icon became missing from the tray after an explorer crash?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Free Software Magazine comes to their senses: software patents are good

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2008, 07:05 AM »

That is very surprising to hear.  Software patents are extremely controversial, and as you say, the free and open source software advocates are rarely in support of them.. I'll have to read this (and the comments to the article) closely.

I think it's important to say that this is an article by someone at the magazine making a case for Software Patents -- I don't think that it represents an "official position" of the magazine.

i guess i was confused by the title and housetiers comments about the article which i took to be saying that the authors were actually making the case for software patents.  it seems they are not taking a position but just putting forward some arguments on both sides.  if anything, they are NOT in favor of software patents.

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Living Room / Re: Sleep is killing my mouse

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2008, 12:53 AM »

i suggest you borrow another mouse from a friend and see if it sleeps ok.  if it does, get a new mouse.

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Living Room / Re: [Story]The Boy And The Apple Tree

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2008, 11:28 PM »

i remember this story.. makes you sad to read it.  reminds you to appreciate your parents while you still can.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Download Cheap software on http://softwarebackups.org, a Scam ?

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2008, 01:32 PM »

yep, it was an oversight -- i'm usually pretty good at making sure we dont have direct links in the email newsletters but this one slipped by me.

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Living Room / Re: Cool Composter

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2008, 01:11 PM »

gadget discussion has always been welcome in the living room section (where you posted it), so i think this is a good place for such discussions.

(though i do always encourage people to attach screenshots of the objects in question!!)

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Living Room / Re: NEW Cody desert island wallpaper

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2008, 12:41 PM »

definitely one of my favorites..

we'll have to customize this for a very very special mug sometime if it's ok with nudone..  and then figure out an event special enough to award it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Another System Explorer

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2008, 11:05 PM »

welcome to the site mistercz, nice to have you here 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to install Google Dictionary in FARR

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2008, 10:38 PM »

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=12421.0
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=12350.0

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to install Google Dictionary in FARR

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2008, 10:37 PM »

there is a different plugin for that

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to install Google Dictionary in FARR

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2008, 09:42 PM »

not in the scripts directory -- put it in the Plugins directory.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best program to manage information collections?

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2008, 08:14 PM »

people, if you post an affiliate link, which we discourage here, you at least need to say clearly that you are making money from people visiting with your link.

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Living Room / Re: slow boot on new hard drive problem

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2008, 07:56 PM »

If I set the jumper to cable select then everything works as it should.

that's weird but... why not just leave it on cable select then?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Download Cheap software on http://softwarebackups.org, a Scam ?

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2008, 07:21 PM »

btw, the very fact that we mentioned this thread (with the softwarebackups.org url) in the email version of the newsletter, caused the newsletter to be blacklisted as spam 

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Developer's Corner / Re: The DC Coders' Breakfast Club

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2008, 06:29 PM »

This might be a fun thing to do weekly --
like every monday start a thread where people are invited to post their plans and goals for the week.

This is rightfully something that would belong in our Getting Organized Experiment section.

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Living Room / Re: Sleep is killing my mouse

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2008, 12:33 PM »

you are mistaken.

hibernate is complete power off and memory state is saved and restored from disk.

s1 and s3 are both low-power sleep modes which keep the ram active.

what you want to try is the sleep mode that keeps power to the USB devices.

i mispoke before -- you are using currently S3 mode it sounds like.  and you want to try to force it to use S1.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to un-minimize FireFox for URL's?

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2008, 11:57 AM »

i think it's likely something with firefox, BUT it would be nice to hear reports from othe users first whether theirs behaves like yours or mine.